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We won't know all the ramifications of ACA until after November by design

WE WON’T KNOW ALL THE RAMIFICATIONS OF ACA UNTIL AFTER NOVEMBER BY DESIGN

The Supreme Court has ruled constitutional Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA), so we must live (or die) with it for the present. A number of important points about ACA have not yet been made public, let alone well explained. The length of the law — 2,700 pages of legalese — seems suspicious.

Greta Van Susteren, FoxNews hostess and trained lawyer, confessed last week that she had attempted to read it, but couldn’t make sense of it, and gave up. Certainly no member of Congress has read it, yet Democrats alone passed it so their president could claim his only legislative victory. It was not a process of which any person ought be proud.

Never mentioned is the timing of information about ACA. We immediately got ballyhoo about the two hugely popular aspects that became effective right away: Coverage of pre-existing conditions and adult children beingcovered by parents’ medical insurance until age 26. It will be in 2014 when we begin to learn about the many parts of ACA that will be very unpopular — long after the fall elections.

Most of these unpopular parts have nothing to do with health care; they are numerous federal government power grabs designed to further its control over us and lessen personal freedoms. The feds will have access to all our health care, employment, and financial records. Naturally the media are ignoring to inform us of these facts, because doing so would lessen Obama’s re-election chances.

The entire process was a version of the old “bait and switch” technique. We’ve already been “baited;” the “switch” will come in 2014. “Obamacare” will prove to be like receiving a prettily wrapped gift: Opening it we find on top a bar of delicious milk chocolate; under it as we dig deeper is a large amount of another brown substance far less pleasing to the palate.